Hugo Liu postdooral scholar media laboratory  comparative media studies institute of [email protected]

Key Words computational aesthetics, semiotics, common sense reasoning, cognitive linguistics, computational food, postmodern culture & philosophy

Education Ph.D. in Media Arts & Sciences School of Architecture & Planning, MIT, 2006 GPA 5.0 of 5.0 “Computing Point-of-View: Modeling and Simulating Judgments of Taste” Advisor: Pattie Maes; Readers: William J. Mitchell & Warren Sack AOL Fellow, 2005-06; British Telecom Fellow, 2004-05

M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science School of Computer Science, MIT, 2002 GPA 5.0 of 5.0 “Semantic Understanding and Common Sense Reasoning in an Adaptive Photo Agent” Advisor: Henry Lieberman

S.B. in Computer Science School of Computer Science, MIT, 2001 GPA 4.9 of 5.0 William T. Haebler Fellow, 2001; Sigma Xi; Tau Beta Pi; Eta Kappa Nu

Diploma Arcadia High School, Arcadia, CA, 1997 GPA 4.0 of 4.0 Valedictorian, class of 700

Courses Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science & Technology, 24.262, Fall 2006 Lecturer (with ) Linguistics & Philosophy Catalogue, Comparative Media Studies Catalogue, MIT

Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications, MAS.969, Fall 2005 Lecturer (with Henry Lieberman) Media Arts and Sciences Catalogue, MIT, enrollment of 15

Media Fabrics, MAS.845, Spring 2006 (Glorianna Davenport) A ective Computing, MAS.630, Spring 2004, Spring 2005 () Context-Aware Computing, MAS.741, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005 (Ted Selker) Guest Lecturer

Common Sense Reasoning, MAS.965, Fall 2003 (Henry Lieberman) Teaching Assistant Introduction to Programming, Jiaotong University Fuzhong, Summer 1998 Instructor (with Bryant McLaughlin) Java language and arti cial intelligence primer, enrollment of 20 hugo liu media laboratory comparative media studies massachusetts institute of technology [email protected]

Research Media Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA Appointments Postdoctoral Associate, 2006- Comparative Media Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA Postdoctoral Scholar, 2006- IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, Hawthorne, NY Researcher, 2003 with the Commonsense Reasoning Group, on ambient context Media Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA Research Assistant, Ambient Intelligence Group, 2004- A liate, Counter Intelligence Group, 2002- Research Assistant, Soware Agents Group, 2000-2004

Consultancy Name withheld pending beta (www.foobar.com), Cambridge, MA Advisor, 2006- Online rich media startup Haystack Media (www.haystack.com), New York, NY Advisor, 2006- “Music powered by people” McAfee SiteAdvisor (www.siteadvisor.com), Boston, MA Technology and Design Advisor, 2005- Cutting edge web security and reputation portal Society of Mind Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Consultant, 2004 ConceptNet 2.0 BCL , Santa Clara, CA Consultant, 2000-2002 Computational linguistics research and development - Lead on MeetingRunner™ (US patent pending 60/335,200) and Spoken-Language User Interface Toolkit (US Dept of Commerce ATP Grant 70NANB9H3025) IBM Secure Way, Gaithersburg, MD Consultant, 1999 Developer for TrustAuthority v3.1, a public-key cryptography product hugo liu media laboratory comparative media studies massachusetts institute of technology [email protected]

Editorial Guest Editor (with Pattie Maes), Special Issue on “Semantics of People and Culture” International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, A ivities Volume 3, 2007, Hershey PA: Idea Publishing Group. Program Committee Member, 8th Congress of RIAO: Recherche d’Information Assistée par Ordinateur, Pittsburg, PA, 2007

Chair (with Rada Mihalcea), AAAI Workshop on “Computational Aesthetics: AI Approaches to Beauty & Happiness”, Boston, MA, 2006 Faculty Advisor, Convergence Culture Consortium (www.convergenceculture.net), MIT, 2006- Member, Task Force on Esthetics, Entertainment and , IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2006- Program Committee Member, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2006), Sydney, Australia, 2006 Program Committee Member, 6th Int’l Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico, 2006 Program Committee Member, AI in Music and Art Special Track, 19th Int’l FLAIRS Conference, Melbourne Beach, FL, 2006 Reviewer, IEEE Internet Computing, 2006 Panelist, "Re ections on the past, visions of the future," A Panel on Recommender Systems, ACM Beyond Personalization Workshop, San Diego, CA, 2005 Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2005 Reviewer, IEEE Multimedia Magazine, 2005 Program Committee Member, AAAI Spring Symposium on "Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors", Stanford, CA, 2005

Competitive 1st Place Team, “Organic Marketing” Competition, MIT, January 2006 Honors AOL Fellowship 2005-06 British Telecom Fellowship 2004-05 1st Place, Snow ake-a-thon Design Competition (John Maeda, host), MIT, January 2005 Best Paper, 7th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Miami, FL, 2003 Best AI Paper, Int’l Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia, Malaga, Spain, 2002 Honors Presentation, MIT Masters esis, EECS Masterworks Colloquium, 2002 hugo liu media laboratory  comparative media studies massachusetts institute of technology  [email protected]

Media & Automated programming: the next wave of Press developer power tools, IEEE So ware Magazine, May/June 2006 Noodling around, Food Service Director Magazine, 15 January 2006 Synesthetic cookbook, Year in Ideas Issue, New York Times Magazine, 11 December 2005 Cutting edge: natural language programming, Oracle Magazine, November 2005 Speaking the Same Language, Technology Review Magazine, July 2005 MIT's Metaphor for So ware Engineering, Optimize Magazine, May 2005 Natural Programming, Technology Insider Magazine, April 2005 English to Code Converter, Slashdot, 25 March 2005 Tool turns English into Code Outline, Technology Research News, 14 March 2005 Product Pointer, Technology Review, February 2005 Digital Serendipity, MIT Technology Insider Magazine, November 2004

Invited TBD Speaking Greenbrier Symposium for Professional Food Writers, White Sulphur Springs, WV, 20-24 May 2007. Engagements e synesthetic cookbook Taste3: Wine, Food, Art; Robert Mondavi 40th Anniversary Celebration, Napa, CA, 14 July 2006.

Viewpoint representations for articial intelligence 12th Portugese Conference on Articial Intelligence, Covilhã, Portugal, 7 December 2005.

Computing point-of-view and viewpoint-driven search America On-Line, Dulles, Washington DC, 26 October 2005.

English: the lightest weight programming language of them all Lightweight Languages 2004, 4 December 2004, Webcast archive available.

Reasoning about emotions TechLink Research Symposium, MIT Sloan School of Business, Cambridge, MA. 29 January 2004.

Uncommon ways to model published content Time-Life UnCommon Sense Publishers Workshop, New York City, 5 December 2003.

e web of nding food: browse, search, modify & eat Finding Food, Cambridge, MA, 16 October 2002.

Intelligent photo retrieval using commonsense semantics Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA, 8 April 2002. hugo liu media laboratory comparative media studies massachusetts institute of technology [email protected]

Refereed Natural language processing for natural language programming Conference R Mihalcea, H Liu, H Lieberman, 2006, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Mexico City, Mexico. Papers Synesthetic Recipes: foraging for food with the family, in taste-space H Liu, M Hockenberry & T Selker, 2005, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Los Angeles, CA.

Langutils: a natural language toolkit for common lisp I Eslick & H Liu, 2005, Proceedings of the 42nd Int’l Lisp Conference, Stanford, CA.

e Aesthetiscope: visualizing aesthetic readings of text in color space H Liu & P Maes, 2005, Proceedings of the 18th Int’l Florida Arti cial Intelligence Research Society Conference, AI in Music & Art Special Track, 74-79, Menlo Park, Calif.: AAAI Press.

Programmatic semantics for natural language interfaces H Liu & H Lieberman, 2005, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1597-1600, ACM Press.

Metafor: visualizing stories as code H Liu & H Lieberman, 2005, Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 305-307, ACM Press.

What Would ey ink? a computational model of attitudes H Liu & P Maes, 2004, Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 38-45, ACM Press.

Visualizing the aective structure of a text document H Liu, T Selker, H Lieberman, 2003, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 740-741, ACM Press.

A model of textual aect sensing using real-world knowledge H Liu, H Lieberman & T Selker, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2003, 125-132, ACM Press. -best paper-

MAKEBELIEVE: using commonsense to generate stories H Liu & P Singh, 2002, Proceedings of the 18th National Conference on Arti cial Intelligence, 957-958, AAAI Press, 2002. hugo liu media laboratory comparative media studies massachusetts institute of technology [email protected]

Refereed Saurus: an emotionally-weighted thesaurus Workshop & J Gouldstone, H Liu, H Lieberman & H Ishii, 2006, Proceedings of the AAAI-06 Workshop on Computational Aesthetics, 107-110, AAAI Press. Symposium Papers A corpus-based approach to nding happiness R Mihalcea & H Liu, 2006, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs, AAAI Press.

InterestMap: harvesting social network pro les for recommendations H Liu & P Maes, 2005, Proceedings of Beyond Personalization 2005: A Workshop on the Next Stage of Recommender Systems Research, 54-59, ACM Press.

Articulation, the letter, and the spirit in the aesthetics of narrative H Liu, 2004, Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism, and Context, ACM Press.

Toward a programmatic semantics of natural language H Liu & H Lieberman, 2004, Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 281-282, IEEE Computer Society Press.

Robust photo retrieval using world semantics H Liu & H Lieberman, Proceedings of the LREC 2002 Workshop on Creating and Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering: State-of-the-art and Future Research, 15-20, LREC Press.

eses Computing Point-of-View: Modeling & Simulating Judgments of Taste H Liu, 2006, Ph.D. Dissertation, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, School of Architecture & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, May 2006.

Semantic Understanding and Commonsense Reasoning in an Adaptive Photo Agent H Liu, 2002, Master's esis, School of EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, May 2002.